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Russian midfielder of Portuguese "Porto" Dmitry Alenichev became the second player from former USSR countries after Andriy Shevchenko to secure a Champions League victory. On Wednesday in German Gelsenkirchen, "Porto" crushed "Monaco" 3:0 in the Champions League final match.
as reported by the official website of the Italian champions, the forward extended his contract with his club for four years. Shevchenko's current agreement with "Milan" expires in 2005, reports RIA "Novosti". \nThus, London's "Chelsea" suffered a defeat in its attempts to acquire the Ukrainian.
Kyiv "Dynamo's" loss with a minimal score of 1:0 in Dnipropetrovsk to the local "Dnipro" has sharpened the battle for "gold" to the limit. Currently, the miners' gap behind "Dynamo" is only three points.
"I am pleased to announce that my long-standing dream has come true C the head coach of "Shakhtar" has become the well-known Romanian specialist Mircea Lucescu," said Akhmetov, introducing the new coach.
The 25th round of the Ukrainian championship turned out to be rich in sensational results. Only the victory of Donetsk "Shakhtar", which for the first time took three points in a game in Lutsk against "Volyn", was fully predictable. All other teams presented their fans with surprises. Some pleasant, some less pleasant.
Oleksiy MYKHAYLYCHENKO (Dynamo head coach): \n \n- It's hard to comment on the game because there was no game today - I mean the game of Kyiv Dynamo. Probably, the main reason for this lies in the fact that many of our players thought that the championship was already over.
The jubilee two-hundredth start of Michael Schumacher in auto racing in the Formula 1 car class, which took place this weekend in Spain, ended with the German's fifth consecutive victory. The start of the race turned out to be unexpected.
Having thanked Bernd Schuster for his work, the management of Donetsk "Shakhtar" decided to decline the services of the German coach who had headed the Ukrainian club for ten months.
The fight for the WBC world heavyweight championship title ended with a brilliant victory by Vitali Klitschko, and glory to the referee of the bout, that this victory was not overshadowed by the death of his opponent Corrie Sanders. During the fight, Sanders absorbed 230 (!
Bernd Schuster, head coach of "Shakhtar": \n \n- I think that my team made only one mistake today C it failed to convert 4-5 hundred-percent goal-scoring opportunities. I believe that we did not deserve to lose today. We played against eleven "Chornomorets" players plus the referee.